Word: realign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adopted. The HEW message proposed a combination of voluntary action by the medical profession and hospitals, plus close supervision by the Government. HEW, the report said, will increase and intensify its programs for reviewing drug utilization and effectiveness, tighten its surveillance of Medicare-Medicaid fees and payments, and realign or diversify federally approved hospital programs...
...counterpoint his European journey, President Nixon last week sent Congress his first message on domestic problems. In it he once again confounded his critics and tempered his cam paign rhetoric by proposing to realign the previous Administration's antipoverty programs rather than cancel them wholesale. As New York's liberal Senator Jacob Javits observed, the message was far more important for its "positive approach and tone than for the rel atively few organization changes it makes." It was also a tribute to the coun sel of Nixon's chief adviser on urban affairs, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, whose...
...United States should not establish formal diplomatic relations with Cuba, nor realign its trade policy, nor support Cuba's re-entry into the OAS until Cuba shows its willingness to leave its neighbors alone and stop its admitted export of revolution. We cannot support tyranny either of the left or of the right...
More from Less. One suggested way to realign the design would be for cities and suburbs to combine their spending and tax collecting, for the sake of efficiency and economy. States could also raise more revenue with less pain if they abandoned most nuisance taxes in favor of income taxes, which grow along with the economy, and they could lower sales taxes by reducing the number of exempted goods, such as food and drugs. Economists reckon that with such changes the states last year could have increased their sales-and incometax revenues by $5 billion. Of course, the states...
...fulfill this specific commitment, negotiations which would realign South Vietnamese politics with military facts must be achieved. For the moment, however, Hanoi's apparent insistence that the NLF should be "the sole representative of the South Vietnamese people" poses a block to such negotiations. The problem of American policy, then, is one of convincing Hanoi to negotiate while avoiding tactics which involve unthinkable costs and unreachable goals...